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(No Model.)

' A. CONVERT 81; E. R'UEFP. APPARATUS FOR D-ISTRBUTING, Aw., LIQUID CARBONIG AGI'D.

Patented Jan. 12, 1886.-

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ADOLF CONVERT AND EMIL RUEFF, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING, 86C., LlQUl-D CARBONIO ACID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,351l dated January 12, 186.

Application tiled October 7, 1885. Serial No. 179,278. (No model.)

` Distributing and Measuring Liquid Carbonio Acid, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to apparatus for distributing and measuring definite quantities of liquid carbonic acid to a series of casks containing liquids of different characters; and to awhich end the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis avertical longitudinal section of ouil improved apparatus. Fig. 2 isa horizontal transverse section thereof in the planear,` x, Fig. 1.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the receiving-chamber of the apparatus,which is preferably cast in the form of a hollow sphere, and is made sufficiently strong to withstand the large pressure to which it is subjected.

B is the distributing-chamber, and C are the faucets.

a, Fig. 1, is an inlet-channel, which leads from the top of the receiving-chamber, and through this channel the liquid carbonic acid is introduced into the receiving-chamber from the main reservoir. In practice the top of the receiving-chamber is formed with a threaded nozzle, and a charging-tube, a', is coupled thereto, the joint being made air-tight by the use of suitable packing. In this tube is a cock (not shown in the drawings) by means of which the supply of acid to the receivingchamber can be controlled. The distributingchamber B is connected with the'lower part of the receiving-chamber by a channel, b, andV the liquid continually flowing thereinis drawn by means of faucets C, radially arranged about said distributing-chamber so that all of the faucets can be operated to iill several vessels at the same time.

To indicate the level of the liquid acid in the receiving-chamber, we employ a strong tube, E, Fig. 1, of glass or other transparent material, which is connected at its top and bottom with the receiving-chamber by channels e e.

Carboniov acid in its liquid state and at ordinary temperature exerts a pressure'of about seventy atmospheres, and it is therefore necessary that an apparatus for receiving and discharging this liquid must possess not only the requisite strength, but, in order that said apparatus may deliver minute quantities of the acid at a time or continuously, it is necessary that valves of a peculiar construction should be employed. As a precautionary measure in case the glass level-gage E should be ruptured by the large pressure to which it is subjected, conical pin-valves E E2 are located in the channels e c', leading to said gage, and suitable valve-seats therefor are formed in the nozzles of the shell of the receiving-chamber. These pin-valves E E2 are screw-threaded at one end, the said threads engaging nuts formed in the screw-caps e2, which latter also serve to keep the necessary packing in place.

The distributingchamber B, previously mentioned, is formed in a separate piece, F, which latter is coupled to a nozzle projecting from the shell of the receiving-chamber, and is provided with a series of radiating-nozzles, B', to which are coupled the faucets C. rlhese faucets C have threaded nozzles c, extending downwardly therefrom, and to these can be attached tubes c', Fig. 1, which lead to the vessels or receivers to be charged with the acid. In order that small quantities can be discharged continuously or intermittently, conical pinvalves C are tted in the shell of the faucet, and have suitable conical seats formed in the distributing-chamber shell.

To indicate the actual quantity of acid contained in the receiving-chamber, the glass tube is properly graduated. One advantage of our apparatus is that the quantity of carbonic acid present in the receiving-chamber can be observed with the eye, so that the exact quantity of acid in said chamber is always known to the operator.

The use ofthe conical pin-valves allows very small quantities of the acid to be drawn either intermittently or continuously with great certainty, and the operation is thereby rendered less dangerous than when large quantities are intermittently discharged from the receiver.

By the use of the distributing-chamber and its radiating discharge-orifices the liquid acid can be transferred to several receivers at one time from asingle receiviIig-chamber, and our apparatus can be used with great advantage for impregnating water or other liquids with earbonic-acid gas, since a very small quantity of liquid carbonio acid is suilicient to produce the requisite eii`crvesccnce in a comparatively large quantity of liquid.

\Vhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of the liquid carbonicacid receiving-chamber A, provided with an upper channel, a, i'or connecting with a reser- Voir containing the liquid carbonio acid, and having the lower channel, b, the distributingchamber B, connected with the lower channel of the receiving-chamber and receiving the liquid carbonic acid from the latter, and a series of faucets radiating around the distributing-chamber, for discharging the liquid carbonic acid from the latter into a series of vessels to be supplied, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the liquid carbonicacid receiving-chamber A, provided with an upper channel, a, for connecting with a reservoircontaining the liquid carbonio acid, and having the lower channel, b, the level-gage E, having communication at its ends, respectivcly, with the upper and lower channels of the receivirug-chamber, a distributing-mamber, B, connected with the lower channel of the receiving-chamber and receiving the liquid carbonio acid from the latter, and a series of discharge-openings radiating from the distributing-chamber, for discharging thc liquid carbonic acid therefrom into a series ot' vessels, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the liquid carbonicacid 1eceivingcha1nber A, having the upper channel, a, for connecting with a reservoir containing the liquid earbonic acid, and provided with the lower channel, b, the distributing-chamber B, connected with the lower channel of the receiving-chamber and receiving the carbonio acid from the latter, a series of discharge-openings radiating from the distributing-chamber, and a longitudinally-adjustable pin-valve, C', one for each dischargeopening, all of said valves seating in the distributing-chamber, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the receivingchamber A, having the upper receiving-channel, a, and discharge-channel b, with the distributingchamber consisting of several parts, the distributing-chamber formed of a separate part, to which are attached separate dischargeopenings, and valves connected with the discharge-openings for discharging the liquid carbonio acid into a series ofvessels, and valves for controlling the several dischargeopenings, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLF CONVERT. [L s] EMIL RUEFF. [L s] Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

